Consultant, Associate Prof.
Danish centre for Particle Therapy, Aarhus University hospital , Denmark
Current positions:
• Consultant & Associate Prof. The Danish Centre for Particle Therapy, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark, since January 2023.
Education:
• Bachelor Degree of Medicine and Surgery (M.B., B.Ch.), Cairo University, 1983.
• Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Radiation Oncology, Cairo University, 1988.
• Medical Doctorate (M.D.) (equivalent to the Danish PhD) in Radiation Oncology, Cairo University, 1995.
• Specialist in Clinical Oncology, Denmark 2005.
Selected research appointments:
• Department of Experimental Clinical Oncology Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark, research fellow 1991-1993, 1994-1996 & and Post doc. fellow 2001-2003.
• Gray Laboratory Cancer Research Trust, Northwood, Middlesex, UK, visiting scientist. 1999.
Supervisor:
• 6 PhD thesis, Aarhus University, Denmark
Funding:
• As a principal investigator, I previously got funding from, The Danish Cancer Society, the Danish Medical Research Council, Novo-Nordisk Fund, as well as from a number of private funding organizations.
Research focus:
• Sarcoma, Clinical Oncology, Proton therapy, Experimental and Clinical Radiation Oncology
Awards:
• UICC "ICRETT" scholarship1990.
• The ESTRO-VARIAN Clinical/Radiobiology Research award, 1995.
• UICC Yamagiwa-Yoshida Cancer Research Study Grant, 1999.
• A Danish Medical Research Council post-doctoral fellowship, January 2001.
• William Nielsen honorary prise. 2010.
• Internationalisation grant. Regionmidt, Denmark 2012 & 2015.
• Senior stipendium, Regionmidt, 2017.
Selected leadership positions:
• Representative of Aarhus in the European Reference Networks (ERNs) program for rare adult Cancers (EURACAN), sarcoma domain, 2017-2021.
• Member of the EURACAN Steering Committee since 2019.
• Chairman of the Scandinavian Sarcoma Group (SSG), since January 2019
• Member of the Radiotherapy Committee of the European Paediatric Soft Tissue Sarcoma Study Group (EpSSG), since 2017.
Articles:
• Peer reviewed articles: 89 (19 as first author, 18 as last author), 2 book chapters
• Scientific impact:
◦ Research gate: Citations : 4770, h-index: 26
◦ Google scholar: Citations: 5249, h-index: 27, i10-index: 66
